Wire fence.



N0. 7l0,9l3. P atented Oct. 7, I902. v A. G. HOEFER.

WIRE FENCE.

(Application filed Max. 15, 1902.)

(No Model.)

$ pgw W', wt/7166A UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUST G. HOEFER, OF FREEPORT, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO I-IOEFER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF FREEPORT, ILLINOIS, A CORPO- RATION OF ILLINOIS.

WIRE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 710,913, dated October 7, 1902.

Application filed March 15, 1902. Serial No. 98,437. (No model.)

To (LZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, AUGUST G. HoEFER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Freeport, in the county of Stephenson and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvementin Wire Fences, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is the production of a Wire fence provided with barbs so arranged as to successfully repel animals without being in danger of seriously wounding them, as is the case when their horizontal strand-wires instead of their vertical staywires are armed with barbs; and it consists in the features of construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 is an elevation of a section of a panel of a wire fence embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a detail as viewed from 2 2 in Fig. 1 of parts there shown. Fig. 3 is a detail as viewed from 3 3 in Fig. 1 of parts there shown. Fig. 4 is a detail as viewed from 44 in Fig. l of parts there shown.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

A represents horizontal strand-wires provided with vertically-registering crimps A formed therein and secured to posts in the usual or any desired manner.

B B B are sections comprising the verti cal stay-Wires of the fence, the ends B whereof project transversely across on opposite sides of and contact the crimps A in the horizontal strand Wires A and lap by and are coiled tightly around each other, thereby firmly securing the horizontal strand-wires A between the coils B connecting such sections B B B of the vertical stay-Wires. The ends of the coils B of each section of the vertical stay-Wires may be extended and pointed to form barbs C, or they may be left barbless, as in the right-hand vertical stay-wire, Fig. 1.

This fence is of simple construction and at the same time strong and durable, taking the place of a barb-Wire fence with very slight liability of causing injury to animals, as is the case with ordinary barb-wire fences.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is i A wire fence comprising a series of horizontal stay-wiresprovided with vertically-registering crimps formed therein and vertical stay-Wires, each vertical stay-wire being com- 

